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re: Home Defense
Posted on 11/4/15 at 9:15 am to StrongBackWeakMind
Posted on 11/4/15 at 9:15 am to StrongBackWeakMind
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What type of buckshot do y'all recommend? I have #4 buckshot in mine.
That's a complex question. Bapple (who has forgotten more about gun issues than I will ever know) will come in and say that birdshot is a no go. However, bird shot (like number 6) will hit like a solid mass of lead at household ranges - 12 to 15 feet at most, right? Yet, it will not rip through interior walls and kill the kids, dog and neighbors. But it is a compromise choice and not without risk.
I think that with buckshot - you're making a choice - fewer, yet larger, projectiles, or more, yet smaller, projectiles. In 12 gauge, 00 is devastating at close range.
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Posted on 11/4/15 at 9:21 am to Ace Midnight
I don't think birdshot is a no-go in certain instances, but I've been shot with it before rabbit hunting (accidentally) at about 30 yards and none of it made it through my Carhartt jacket. I image at 30 feet it would be different, but you are giving up LOTS of horsepower vs buckshot. If that had been buckshot I would have probably died.
Things like what clothes the bad guy is wearing matters a lot with birdshot at anything more than point blank.
At least we can all agree that for OP, a 20ga shotgun is the answer.
Things like what clothes the bad guy is wearing matters a lot with birdshot at anything more than point blank.
At least we can all agree that for OP, a 20ga shotgun is the answer.
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